Today I’m
going to write about one of the best experiences in my life.
Last summer
my friends and I went to Poland, we went there to volunteer, among other things, like visiting the country or praying.
We left on
July 9, I remember I had to get up at three in the morning to get to the
airport at four, at first I was very sleepy, but seeing my friends with luggage
in hand made me forget that I wanted to sleep.
All the
time we spent in Poland we slept in a kind of convent.
Every
morning we went first to mass and after that, to a nursing home to help the
elders, feeding them, making them happy with songs and dances, giving love to
them, etc.
Most of the
days we cooked our own food. After eating, we prayed every day.
In the
afternoons we went to visit the city: Krakow, which is a big and beautiful
city, with a lot of things to see. In my opinion, the most beautiful things of
all are the central square and the Cathedral with its history, there is also
plenty of shops, malls and a beautiful river running through the city, the
river Vistula.
We did
several things, one day we went on a boat through the river, it was gorgeous;
other day we went to Wadowice, Pope’s Juan Pablo II home; we visited Schindler’s
factory, Czestochowa sanctuary, this was very exciting and impressive to me and
finally we went to Auschwitz and there are no words to describe how it is there,
it was unpleasant and really shocking, I was struck by the silence that had all
those rooms filled with personal belongings of those killed people in the
concentration camp, the dimensions of it, and what the Nazis were able to do
with these poor people. I think it's something you can’t imagine until you're
there.
This is
something that leaves its mark forever, something sad, when you're there you
really feel it because you step yourself into the shoes of all those people, you're
there, in one of the largest Cemeteries in the world, it is an indescribable
feeling , something awful and you feel like wanting to mourn, but I don’t
regret being there, on the contrary, I have lived the history, I'm grateful for
it, this is something I think everyone should go there at least once in their
life, so that this doesn’t happen again.
We were
there only 10 days, at first I thought it was going to be a long time in a very
strange city but, the truth is that I missed more days, time passed very quickly.
For me, it
was an incredible experience, people there, are very good and grateful, I guess
for all that this country has experienced.
I made new
friends and I met a new culture, I lived sad moments, some with fear, others
very funny and others with feelings that I had never lived before, so I can say that
it was a very complete experience, one of the best in my life.
I’m going
to write about Anne Frank’s life, I have read her diary and I think it
happened a lot of things in her life in spite of having lived only thirteen
years, and I think that Anne was very brave, because although she lived bad
times, she always tried to smile and make happy to her family, that`s the main reason why I'm going to write about her life.
Annelies
Marie Frank was born in 1929, Germany.
Her parents were Otto Frank and Edith Hollander,
she had a sister called Margot, who was three years older than her.
They were Jews
and they were living a happy life, however their parents were worried about the
situation in Germany because Adolf Hitler were blaming the Jews for their
problems.
The day of
Anne’s birthday, their parents gave her a diary, she was very excited because
she loved writing, and she started writing immediately.
In this diary she wrote
about her experiences in an attic, while their family and she were holing up
from the Nazis in Amsterdam during the Second World War.
But one day,
her family were captured and they were taken to a concentration camp, where
they all died, except her father Otto.
Anne were sent to a concentration camp
in Auschwitz in 1944 and a few time later to another one in Bergen-Belsen.
She
died there of a high fever, in 1945, some days before she was released.
Some years
later, Otto found her diary and he published it, known nowadays as ‘The diary
of Anne Frank’.
My name is María Sánchez Rokiski, I’m 16 years old, I’m
Catholic and I was born on the 25th of February, in Málaga, where I live with my parents and my
brother Juan Luis, who is 19 years old. I have also a sister, whose name is Belen, she is 27 and she is married and has a cute son, called Mario. My best friend's name is Marian, she is from Granada and she is 16 years old too
In my free time I like dancing salsa, going out with my friends
and watching tv, especially romantic films.
I love eating chocolate, listening to music and travelling,
one of my favourite places in the world is Mexico.
I also like taking photos and drawing, but I have no time to
do it.The subject I like the most is English but I like very much Maths and technical graphics too, I love
languages and I would like to learn German because I think that nowadays is
very important to know many languages. In the future I would like to study architecture or
engineering but I’m not very sure what I’m going to choose yet.
